Weekly Blog Post #2

Friday, August 23rd, 2013

Testing Limits

      Many times, my math teacher said "It takes everything to prove something right, but it takes only one thing to prove something wrong". Let's take a look at science for example. It takes such as a long process to establish a theory. So many experiments, and testing, and constant revision of hypothesis. Yet, even after this straining procedure is all passed, one single example that is an exception to the theory would discard it. I've heard many times people saying that scientists seem to be pessimists who ramble around in the search for truth. But isn't that what we all do? Don't we live in order to find out more, whether it is about ourselves, the people around us, the world, any kind of knowledge? That reminded me of what I learned about limits. A limit is a point that is constantly approached and gotten closer to without ever being attained. It is the point that we circle, we push ourselves to reach, but we do not manage to get to it. In a mental picture, this sounds like some kind of torture. I mean, imagine trying to reach your goal, getting closer to it at every second, but never managing to actually grasp it. This would be an analogy for our lives. We always try to search for answers, for the truth, for a state of certainty where we would not need to search for anything else. Absolute peace. But this is not possible because we always find another door to pass through, a stain that grabs our attention and asks us to keep searching. 

      We live in a quest for truth and knowledge. We live to try to attain certainty, without never actually reaching this destination. We live to test our limits, the boundaries set upon us, eternally. 

      Mm, I didn't want to make it sound like some sort of doom or curse, but it sort of looks like it. Well, on a more positive note, I will add this, even though it is a little off-topic from the previous topic. The important thing is to have confidence in one's beliefs, to trust oneself. We all know our own limits, and as long as we are confident about what we want to believe, are certain of ourselves and our decisions in our own perspective, we will live in happiness. Because life depends on how we decide to look at it. And I am certain and confident about one thing: As long as I decide to look at life with a smile and to have hope, I will live a happy life.